a minute’s noise
It was my turn to play records on Resonance FM’s Kosmische Show tonight. Leon texted me to suggest I honoured John Peel with a minute’s noise. That was the best suggestion I ever heard.
But when it came to it, I just said how much he’d be missed. And then I said I’d like to play something I liked, something we liked, because that, to me, is the best way to say anything. I put on “oh Yeah” by Can. There’s no particularly Peel-ish reaon why I played that track. I just thought it was beautiful right now, and I thought that he probably liked it too, back when it came out in 71. That’s all.
Those who bring righteous music to others with an excitement and openness and generosity of spirit that’s got nothing to do with fan-boy elitism and exclusivity - those who can sense the magic in the most abstract weird shit and the most direct teen pop both - those people are good people. We need them and they need us. I hope that some of that generosity of spirit can be found in Plan B magazine, and that that’s maybe one reason why we all feel a bit sad right now.
Posted on Wednesday, October 27th, 2004by Frances May Morgan
On the subject of fan-boyish-ness: was the version of "Oh Yeah" from the remastered Tago Mago? I don’t know if it was the radio or the remastering but they seem to have weakened one of the sections where Miki’s guitar goes into these twin motorisms. The second guitar is too quiet and the first has been cleaned up to the extent that it’s lost a lot of its firepower.
Hmm, where did my anorak go?
Posted by iotar on October 28th, 2004 at 12:46 pm